DISQUS

David McDonald · 12 months ago

Moving towards online distribution of movies is certainly a step in the right direction for MGM. However, I doubt that many people would want to watch a whole movie on YouTube, considering the quality is somewhat poor and most people can only watch YouTube on their laptop or PC.

So great idea at the distribution level, but maybe they need to think of ways to enhance their delivery?

mathewi · 12 months ago

I have to agree, David. In most cases, given the quality that YouTube provides, I can't see watching a whole movie on the site. Maybe Google will spend some of its excess billions to improve things.

Jasonp107 · 12 months ago

YouTube has the clear advantage in eyeballs over literally every other video service on the web.

I think the real push for quality video won't happen until we see a significant number of consumers with YouTube hooked up to their living room TVs. Unlike Mark Cuban, who seems dead set against internet video largely because it sucks for developers, I'm a big believer in its future.

There's very little more convenient from a consumer standpoint, and there are only two real missing components:

1) bandwidth on both ends to support high quality streaming, and
2) easy transference of video between computer screen and TV

whoever invents the "set your computer near your TV and it will bluetooth the image over to your big screen" device is going to get rich quick.

But I digress - I think the move to YouTube is smart, because like I've said about news in general, I think video content providers should be available in as many places as possible, because it's easy and cheap and you never know where the consumer is going to be.

mathewi · 12 months ago

Thanks, Jason -- I agree it's good for content providers to have their stuff in as many places as possible, and there's no question that YouTube is a natural candidate.

PKafka · 12 months ago

Actually Legally Blonde was a big hit. But they're not offering Legally Blonde. They're offering *clips* of that movie.

mathewi · 12 months ago

Thanks Peter.

john · 6 months ago

You totaly forgot the main one here:

http://youtube-downloads.110mb.com/

It knows all native YouTube video formats: HD, MP4, FLV, 3GP videos, multiple simultaneous downloads, preview video, auto start download, skip already downloaded files, clipboard monitoring, drag & drop from IE / Firefox, proxy support, etc. Program size only 39Kb!!

I use it a lot!